I've never worked the "resorts", and while you could hardly call this place a resort 90% of the economy in the summer derives from Tourists, or "Part-Time" locals who summer here and winter elsewhere.
The tourists, they're the tippers, they have money, they spend money, they know - for the most part - how to tip, and without them I couldn't afford to be here.
However, the tourists, these same sightseers, they slow down the service in the local cafe's and restaurants, locals have to wait in line for tables at their favorite haunts, to grab a coffee at the bakery, they drive the speed limit, they fill the ferries with wait times and getting off a ferry behind a parade of motorhomes all driving 20 under the speed limit to gawk at every single chipmunk or roadside deer (85 KM to Creston, No Passing), well, it takes a lot of patience. They own vacation properties that sit vacant for 80% of the year while the locals, the people here serving them, live in tents down on the beach or up logging roads or if they're "lucky" at the BBI or one of the trailer parks in the neighborhood. The tourists, they're driving newer, nicer cars, they've got current registration, insurance, credit cards, they represent every dream everyone who ever moved to the Kootenays had to leave behind...
This love-hate thing with tourists, I'm getting it...